The Shepheard's Calender: Twelve Aeglogues Proportionable to the Twelve Monethes

TWELVE AEGLOGUES PROPORTIONABLE TO THE TWELVE MONETHES
ENTITLED TO THE NOBLE AND VERTUOUS GENTLEMAN MOST WORTHY OF ALL TITLES BOTH OF LEARNING & CHIVALRY, MAISTER PHILIP SIDNEY.
BY EDMUND SPENSER: NEWLY ADORNED WITH TWELVE PICTURES AND OTHER DEVICES BY WALTER CRANE.
LONDON & NEW YORK HARPER & BROTHERS MDCCCXCVIII
TO HIS BOOK.
Go, little Book! thyself present,
As child whose parent is unkent,
To him that is the President
Of Nobleness and Chivalry:
And if that Envy bark at thee,
As sure it will, for succour flee
Under the shadow of his wing.